Food · Puzzle #14 · Tuesday, October 13
Food: the board
Eight items, eight categories, one place each. Here is the board with every figure and where it comes from, and the best way to place them. Play today's Food.
The categories
- Salty: 1 pt per doubling over 1 mg of sodium per 100 g
- Sugar rush: 1 pt per 3 g of sugar per 100 g
- Cholesterol: 1 pt per 10 mg of cholesterol per 100 g
- Calcium: 1 pt per 20 mg of calcium per 100 g
- Potassium: 1 pt per 60 mg of potassium per 100 g
- Fat: 1 pt per 4 g of fat per 100 g
- Carbs: 1 pt per 6 g of carbs per 100 g
- Fiber: 1 pt per gram of fiber per 100 g
The best board
- Rice cakes in Carbs: has 82 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0)
- Caviar in Salty: has 1,500 mg of sodium per 100 g (10.0)
- Butter in Fat: has 81 g of fat per 100 g (10.0)
- Macadamia nuts in Fiber: has 8.6 g of fiber per 100 g (8.6)
- Strawberry jam in Sugar rush: has 49 g of sugar per 100 g (10.0)
- Parsley in Potassium: has 554 mg of potassium per 100 g (9.2)
- Mozzarella sticks in Calcium: has 334 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0)
- Egg in Cholesterol: has 373 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0)
The most this board could score: 77.8 of 80.
The lineup, figure by figure
Rice cakes
Airy discs of puffed rice

Photo: BD2412, Public domain - Salty
- has 26 mg of sodium per 100 g (4.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 0.88 g of sugar per 100 g (0.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 11 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 290 mg of potassium per 100 g (4.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 2.8 g of fat per 100 g (0.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 82 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 4.2 g of fiber per 100 g (4.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Caviar
Cured fish eggs, a luxury

Photo: THOR, CC BY 2.0 - Salty
- has 1,500 mg of sodium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 0 g of sugar per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 588 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 275 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 181 mg of potassium per 100 g (3.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 18 g of fat per 100 g (4.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 0 g of fiber per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Butter
Churned cream, spread on toast

Photo: Matěj Baťha, CC BY-SA 3.0 - Salty
- has 643 mg of sodium per 100 g (9.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 0.06 g of sugar per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 215 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 24 mg of calcium per 100 g (1.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 24 mg of potassium per 100 g (0.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 81 g of fat per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 0.06 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 0 g of fiber per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Macadamia nuts
Round, buttery nut with a very hard shell

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0 - Salty
- has 5 mg of sodium per 100 g (2.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 4.6 g of sugar per 100 g (1.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 85 mg of calcium per 100 g (4.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 368 mg of potassium per 100 g (6.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 76 g of fat per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 14 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (2.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 8.6 g of fiber per 100 g (8.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Strawberry jam
Fruit cooked down to spread on toast

Photo: 毒島みるく, CC0 - Salty
- has 32 mg of sodium per 100 g (5.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 49 g of sugar per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 20 mg of calcium per 100 g (1.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 77 mg of potassium per 100 g (1.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.07 g of fat per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 69 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 1.1 g of fiber per 100 g (1.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Parsley
Leafy herb used as a garnish

Photo: Etopalrux, CC BY-SA 4.0 - Salty
- has 56 mg of sodium per 100 g (5.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 0.85 g of sugar per 100 g (0.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 138 mg of calcium per 100 g (6.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 554 mg of potassium per 100 g (9.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.79 g of fat per 100 g (0.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 6.3 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (1.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 3.3 g of fiber per 100 g (3.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Mozzarella sticks
Breaded, fried sticks of cheese

Photo: Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0 - Salty
- has 861 mg of sodium per 100 g (9.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 2.4 g of sugar per 100 g (0.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 36 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (3.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 334 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 108 mg of potassium per 100 g (1.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 18 g of fat per 100 g (4.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 25 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (4.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 2 g of fiber per 100 g (2.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Egg
Hard-boiled chicken's egg

Photo: Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0 - Salty
- has 124 mg of sodium per 100 g (7.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 1.1 g of sugar per 100 g (0.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 373 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 50 mg of calcium per 100 g (2.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Potassium
- has 126 mg of potassium per 100 g (2.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 11 g of fat per 100 g (2.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 1.1 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fiber
- has 0 g of fiber per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central